Word: overly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In the past, intramural baseball has been very popular, with over 170 upperclassmen reporting last year. On the basis of that, it is expected that about 150 baseballers will turn out this season.
"Eight or nine full professorships has been the average figure over the last 15 years," declared Frederick G. White, Secretary of the Department of English and Secretary of the Division of Modern Languages. "In the middle thirties the number swelled, reaching its high-point of 11 during the 1937-38...
Last Friday the Hygiene Building witnessed an influx of famous medical men meeting to discuss the Grant Study. This psychological, biological, and sociological survey has been in progress for over a year in an attempt to discover the motivating forces of a cross-section of normal college students. Although the...
Over the whole period (100 years), the life span of the oarsmen was much longer than the average life expectancy. The non-oarsmen were all healthy men accepted for life insurance.
For example, last year at the end of the Yale race at New London an oarsman suddenly slumped over in his seat. He was operating under an old psychological reflex which required that after he had rowed a certain definite time he should stop and rest.